Need to get a battery and charger sorted out for mine. The Chinese stuff isn't great! Charger runs quite warm (unsurprisingly given that there's no space in the plug) but I checked mine out and the welds and contact points seem ok. Battery life is poor so I'll be getting something from torchy or smudge soon enough

Looks awesome for the money. I think it's time to abandon the bastid. Looks like you're building a waiting list for the mod already. Are you going to offer it or was this just an experiment? Any idea of cost? If you're not offering, I might have to have a go myself, it's not a massive loss if I balls up a £13 X2.

How's about a kit to allow us to mess around ourselves, or even just the heatsinks & destructions? (Which switch or how to re-use the switch & how do you program the Lflex [i know this should come with it, but just for us novices, how is it done?]).
Though I'm really impressed with my unit for the cash, I do wonder if it's under driven, as mine doesn't get hot like other posts suggest there's do....

This is what has been puzzling me... By the time someone has bought a Solarstorm X2 off the net, bought a better battery and charger off Smudge, and then sent it to Troutie for a driver upgrade and better heatsink, you could have bought a decent branded light like a Gloworm X2 or Gemini Duo for similar outlay! Or for a little more, a full blown Troutielight.

But if you can live with the stock battery and charger (mine seems ok) it's a bargain for the price. Once the batteries go I'll get new ones. I may get a charger before then tho but it's incremental outlay

And still significantly less than 70 quid even with new batteries and a charger